VUBIS library system - Associatie Antwerpen

VUBIS library system
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Head Library and Information Technology Unit (IBT)
University Library Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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VUB…IS origin
VUBIS cooperation
VUBIS products
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VUB…IS
Starting points in the Seventies
– VUBIS will be an online, interactive and integrated
library system
– User-friendly
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 Response times < 4 seconds
 Multilingualism
Public catalogue is central
Development by library staff (VUB) & Interactive Systems (IS)
MUMPS as language
A mini computer in the UL  mainframes
1977 : one of the 1st libraries
with an OPAC
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VUBIS cooperation
Eighties – Technical University Eindhoven (Netherlands)
gets involved
– Both universities own the VUBIS products
– Commercialization of VUBIS by a company
Currently
– Universities and Infor develop
together the products of the Vubis family
– Infor has the exclusive commercial rights:
+350 Vubis customers in Europe, America, Africa
and Australia
– Many years of expertise and cooperation
– http://www.vubis-smart.com
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V-smart
V-link
V-spaces
Article Database (ADB)
UniCat
EZproxy
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V-smart
• Browser based staff interface
• Integrated modules for cataloging,
circulation, acquisitions, reporting
and serials management
• No client software needed
• Customizable through style sheets
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OPAC
• Collective catalogue of the
Central Library,
Medical Library
and the Scientific Units
• V-link enabled
• Searchable via V-spaces
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V-link: the link generator
• Enables easy, intuitive
transparent access to
information
• Far-reaching integration by
enabling links between diverse
sources and services available
in the library
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V-link
• Based upon the OpenURL
standard
• V-link works in every bibliographic
database that supports OpenURL
• For different material types: from
books, articles and journals to …
comics
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UniCat
• Belgian union catalogue
• Currently holds some 12 million records from
Belgian university libraries and the Royal
Library
• Focusses on academic and scientific library
collections and targets both end users and
library professionals
• Upload mechanism
• Hosted by http://www.sempertool.dk/
• Searchable via V-spaces
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Article DataBase (ADB)
• 39 million articles
in a Vubis database
• TOCs from +15.000 journals
• V-link enabled
• Searchable via V-spaces
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V-spaces: simultaneous search
• Search multiple information
resources simultaneously
through a single interface and a
single query
• Search results are
subsequently presented in a
single, integrated, list.
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V-spaces: more info
• Based upon common search
standards and protocols:
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Z39.50, SRU/SRW
ODBC / SQL
XML gateways or APIs
Web Services
OpenSearch
HTTP/HTML
VubisSmart specific protocols
• Integration with V-link
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EZproxy
Software for providing users with remote
access to web-based IP access restricted
licensed databases: an intermediate
server between users and licensed
databases
Remote user
On site user
IP ok
ADB
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EZproxy II
Authenticate
Remote user
IP ??
EZproxy
Access
On site user
IP ok
EZproxy does not need require the user
to change its browser settings ; only a
specific port has to be open on the
firewall of the ISP (e.g. 2048)
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EZproxy
Direct
Access
ADB
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V-smart
V-link
V-spaces
Article Database (ADB)
UniCat
EZproxy
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